Strong Communities for a Strong Alberta

Fields are a little too wet for Gibbons-area farmer Mike Kalisvaart’s liking. Still boggy from last week’s stubborn rainfall, Monday was a no-go for harvesting his 10,000-plus acres, but he’s confident he’ll be able to haul equipment out Tuesday and…

Two liquefied natural gas megaprojects slated for Nova Scotia are moving ahead, despite investors cancelling plans on the West Coast. Bear Head LNG and Goldboro LNG could be the country’s first natural gas export facilities. Bear Head, a subsidiary of…

A 32-year-old Alberta man has been charged with drug trafficking and manslaughter in connection with an overdose death last fall in an Edson hotel room. Edson RCMP were called on Oct. 21, 2016, about a sudden death in a local hotel, police said…

A new report on minimum wage increases in Alberta adds to a chorus of criticism that the pay bumps for low-income earners are poorly timed and will come with the unintended consequences of killing jobs. The report, to be published…

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When he isn’t at work as the chief economist of ATB Financial, Todd Hirsch likes to travel the world. One day, he found himself wandering through the gift shop of the Danish Architecture Centre, in Copenhagen, when he found himself standing face…

On the morning of Sept. 30, 1967, dozens of jets and commercial aircraft landed on Fort McMurray’s airstrip — then its busiest day ever — carrying oil executives, government officials and other dignitaries for what Alberta’s then-premier declared a historic day.…

ST. ALBERT, Alta. _ Metis activist and retired senator Thelma Chalifoux has died. Chalifoux’s daughter, Debbie Coulter, says her mother passed away Friday evening at a care home in St. Albert, near Edmonton, and had been in declining health…

A rural Alberta parish with a congregation of 16 people shares an unlikely link with one of England’s most notable churches, favoured by famous historical figures such as Princess Diana and Sir Isaac Newton. “I thought it was surprising, to…